How to Promote My Blog with Blogwalking-This article will share a method to promote your blog by doing what we call as blogwalking.
Do you know Blogwalking or blog walking?
Blogwalking is an activity of a blogger who visits someone’s blog and give comments on their articles, leave comments on their shoutbox, etc. The blogs to visit may be a new blog, your friends’ blogs, or any blog you visit. Blogwalking can be done to promote your blog post.
Remember to give value in your comments. This means you have be since and honest on commenting someone’s articles.
To do that you surely have to read carefully what the article to know what it is all about. Only after you understand what you read you can give a comment that would be valuable for the writer and the other visitors.
Blogwalking activities may improve the number of visitors to your blog. It can also it can also tighten the friendship among bloggers and at the same time improve your blog rank in Alexa.
So, you now know what blogwalking is, and now you have to know how to blogwalking.
Here are some simple steps you can try to start blogwalking.
- Try to find a blog that has crowded and lively chat box. How do you know a chat box is lively? you’ll know by measure how many people comment in the chat box a day. Now all you have to do is to comment in the chat box and put a link back to your blog.
- Give a lot of comments to a blog who install plugin “commentluv”. The plugin will display your last post title under your comment that will attract the other readers to visit your blog.
- Visit a blog that has “dofollow” system. Leave a comment there. You can improve your visitors to your blog and you can get a free backlink to your blog.
- When you are blogwalking, it’d better to leave a comment under the article you comment rather than in shoutbox. This will attract not just the blog owner you visit to visit back your blog but the other readers too.
The Weakness of this method
Promoting your blog by commenting in Chat Box surely need a blog that has a chat box. But unfortunately, there are not many blogs that have Chat Box in their blogs.
How many traffics that you can get by this method?
Let’s say if you comment to someone’s blog article you visit and put the link back to your blog. If each of them cause 3-4 new unique visitors to your blog, how many new visitors you can get if you do blogwalking to 100 blogs?
As a blogwalker, how many visitors that you will get will depend much on how good and attractive and valuable your comment. So make sure your comment is good enough to give a good reason for the new visitors to visit your blog.
Like always, please share your thoughts if you have any about blogwalking in comment field below.
Enjoy blogging!